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3 Aug, 5 tweets, 2 min read
And some schools for disabled children in South Africa 🇿🇦 and elsewhere.
tania.co.za/when-parents-f…
Chemical restraint in South African schools for disabled children is one of the areas we'll be addressing in collaboration with the Western Cape Network on Disability. autisticstrategies.net/2021-autistic-…
@endseclusion works to stop similar abuses in the USA.
It happens in ATUs in the UK. Disabled people are incarcerated put into solitary confinement...

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Tania | Autistic Strategies Network | #BanABA Profile picture
4 Aug
So, my friend just got accused of using the Dark Web playbook because she calls herself 'severely autistic'. OK. I don't use the term 'severe autism' myself, but that's her way of expressing the extent of her difficulties.
I kinda feel that we should hear people out when they need a lot of support, and not constantly deny them that support just because they frame their experience using taboo words.
Here's the thread that evoked that accusation.
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Tania | Autistic Strategies Network | #BanABA Profile picture
3 Aug
[THREAD] A friend with high support needs asked me to post this. She's not on Twitter. She said that the questions are rhetorical, and don't demand replies. She just wanted me to put it out there. So I'm doing it in the spirit of this:
[For clarity: When she says 'autism community', she means communities of #ActuallyAutistic people engaged in activism.]
"I struggle with the autism community they make me meltdown so I avoid them. I have severe autism and I can only stay out of secure units with powerful psychotropic meds that chronically sedate me and my friends who work hard to keep me alive."
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Tania | Autistic Strategies Network | #BanABA Profile picture
3 Aug
“Building a Person”: Legal and Clinical Personhood for Autistic and Trans Children in Ontario (by @JakePyne)

"Despite open violence, Lovaas framed ABA as compassionate... Despite uncertain evidence, he presented ABA as scientific..."

cambridge.org/core/journals/…
"Psychologist George Rekers, a key figure in the world of conversion therapy (and co-founder of the notoriously anti-gay Family Research Council), used Lovaas’s techniques to treat so-called “deviant sex-role behaviors” in male children."
— @AlexKronstein nsadvocate.org/2018/07/11/tre…
The man behind ex-gay “conversion therapy” started out trying to make autistic children “normal”:
"Both projects were based on the same fundamental view: that it’s easier to change a child’s behavior than it is to destigmatize that behavior in society"

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Tania | Autistic Strategies Network | #BanABA Profile picture
2 Aug
BAN OF CONVERSION THERAPIES FOR AUTISTIC PEOPLE [THREAD]

"Conversion therapies are pseudoscientific practices of trying to change an individual’s behaviour to conform to the social expectations of a particular culture using psychological and physical interventions."
"Various jurisdictions around the world have passed laws against LGTBQIA+ conversion therapy."
"However, the same underlying techniques of coercion continue to be applied to young autistic children and other vulnerable people, as can be seen in [the School of Psychology, University of Auckland] description of the scope of Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA)..."
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Tania | Autistic Strategies Network | #BanABA Profile picture
7 Jul
I wish to remind you that the BCBAs who work at the Judge Rotenberg Center are credentialed by the BACB. The BACB takes away the credentials of professionals who violate their code of conduct. The BACB code of conduct permits torture. #ABAisAbuse
Who's on the board of this organisation which tortures disabled children?
Chairman of the Board at the Judge Rotenberg Center: Henry Slucki, Ph.D.
Psychologist, Senior Research Associate at University of Southern California, School of Medicine, Department of Human Behavior
Co-producer and Co-Host of weekly talk radio program on disabilities
#ABAisAbuse
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Tania | Autistic Strategies Network | #BanABA Profile picture
6 Jul
My friend had some kind of medical emergency. When paramedics came and took her to the hospital, she had an autistic meltdown. They then called the police, who put her into restraint for 9 hours. She's now being sent home on a bus without treatment. Normal for the UK, apparently.
They tasered the patient.
9 hours, strapped down in pain during all that time, no medical treatment.
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